Bloomberg’s Poll Shows People Hate Michael Bloomberg
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Robert Gehl
January 31, 2016
This is awesome.
A Bloomberg poll has shown that Bloomberg isn’t popular.
The poll of likely Iowa caucus-goers in Iowa showed only 17 percent of Democrats and 9 percent of Republicans held a “favorable” view of the former New York City and faux-Republican mayor.
Among likely GOP caucus-goers, a full half had an unfavorable view of Bloomberg and more than one in four Democrats viewed him favorably, The New York Times is reporting.
By comparison, 50 percent of the Republicans polled had a favorable view of another Manhattan billionaire, Donald J. Trump, whose candidacy has offended and baffled Mr. Bloomberg. And 46 percent of the Democrats had a favorable view of Martin O’Malley, who is faring poorly in polls, nearly three times the proportion viewing Mr. Bloomberg favorably.
The poll was conducted by Selzer & Co., and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
The polling related to Mr. Bloomberg — which to its credit made a point of asking about Mr. Bloomberg, the owner of Bloomberg News — was contained in a news release handed out to reporters. But the pollster on hand and the staff from Bloomberg Politics did not seem eager to highlight it. The data was discussed at the prodding of Ben Smith, editor in chief of BuzzFeed, who asked about it during an event for the news media.
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